Privacy czar wins approval

Daniel Therrien has been approved as Canada’s new privacy commissioner.

Therrien’s appointment was opposed by the NDP and some Liberal senators because of his previous job as a top government lawyer who worked with police and spy agencies.

But both the House of Commons and the Senate voted in favour of Therrien’s appointment. He has a seven-year term, replacing interim privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier. The House of Commons voted in favour of the nomination 153 to 75.